Would you rather be an Alcoholic or a Drug Addict?

You can go to a liquor store to buy liquor but you have to go to an alley in the ghetto to get drugs.

ok now i understand your point. But not everything is like the movies. Anyway, no one becomes an addict intentionally; so wouldn't you want the thing you're addicted too to be more difficult to obtain? The more expensive and hard to get the easier to escape the triggers that set you off.

or you have to go to a doctor and get a prescription.

Alcohol is a drug, so an alcoholic is a drug addict. But for the financial cost to feed the habit, alcohol is usually cheaper than most othe addictive drugs, and easier to obtain.

Pssh, as if I'd be either of them. I really don't see how people can turn to these things so I just clicked randomly.

Neither actually, I can't be. Due to the screwed way my brain's wired, I can't feel hunger, that also means I can't be addicted in the normal sense, drug and alcohol cravings are run through the hunger mechanism. I also don't have vagus nerve reflexes, at least every one they've checked doesn't work. Vagul responses are there, just not vagal reflexes. I wonder if hunger is a vagul reflex, or depends on them somehow? I'll have to look that up.
Anyway when I was a kid, I tried to experience them, just to know what it felt like to be normal, all that did is let me go to the point my body started consuming itself. Then I felt a need to eat, it hurt like hell and I had to eat to make it stop. The doctor said it wasn't the same. I decided, I don't want to know. There was that message here, about that kid who beat his parents to death with his sisters bat, because they wouldn't support his alcohol habit. If they'll drive you to that, I don't want to feel them.

Gosh you didnt give me a choice for both. I mean if I am going to ruin my life shouldnt I partake of everything available to accomplish that goal?

I checked alcoholic--but as an AOD--I must say NEITHER! You need to put neither as a choice. This is serious. People die from this.

at least then you know what your taking in...

alcohol destroys the liver and that can be fixed easily, drugs can kill you.
besides already I fought both addictions, successfully :)

Much easier to kick and safer while you're on it.

I had to think about this for a while and here's the thing: Because alcohol is legal its way more socially acceptable and that makes it harder to get away from. If you're recovering and you want to quit drinking the temptation is always around you: you go out to a family restaurant and alcohol is on the menu, and there are extra fliers promoting cheap drinks, you go out to family gathering, hang out with your friends, go to the grocery store, the drug store, etc Alcohol is always in your face. commercials, billboards, and so on.
We even celebrate holidays that are about drinking.

numbs the pain better

In truth, neither. Why not put that as a choice?

Because the question isnt would your rather be an alcoholic or a drug addict or neither :) if you didnt want to be either, this is the wrong question to be answering ;)

I say alcohol because it's legal. If the reverse were true. . . and drugs were legal, people would be more against alcohol, but 'everything in moderation' if you don't let it consume you. Granted, hard-core drugs are illegal for a reason and I'm not condoning drugs by any means. . . Alcohol can definitely be a dangerous component to any situation.

Less HangOvers..and alot more fun

Actually, I would be neither. Of that I am positive. However, if there is a "druthers" contest, I suppose alcoholic would be the choice because alcohol is legal and easily obtainable. Drugs, be they illegal or Rx types, are not easy to get and by buying the lousy stuff I would be supporting the scum of the earth: drug dealers. Phooey to that.

Alcohol IS a drug.

So the real question is: liquid or solid. . . Lol

LOL! Some come as a liquid or a solid...for instance, Valium & Demerol ;)

Weed over alcohol for sure. That's the drug of pref.

If you are an alcoholic, you are a drug addict.
But I would take pot over alcohol any day, so if I must chose an addiction to have, that would be my choice

What a choice. I think alcohol is less dangerous than drugs. Hence my choice.

Why do you think that?

Because you can get quite drunk even to the point of passing out but it's unlikely that it will kill you. If you OD on a drug, it can kill you pretty fast. I rarely drink and don't use drugs so the only thing that might kill me is that extra piece of pizza.

People OD on alcohol everyday. and drunks kill people everyday. I think that because its legal people have an unrealistic view of how safe it is. Allot of coke heads are highly functional successful people. I wouldn't want to be an addict but this question is great cause it brings up conversations like this.

I've never heard of a bad liquor deal go down...

So is your argument that; because its legal, its the better thing to be addicted too?

No, I'm saying that I've never heard of a bad liquor deal go down...

lol oh...why didn't you say so in the first place? ;) But the question isn't would you rather sell drugs or alcohol.

You don't have to be selling drugs to have a bad drug deal go down...

Gee why can't I be both! did my share of Pot, but never drank from the liquid idiot.

"liquid idiot"... what an apt description

thanks.

You're welcome

then why would you rather be an alcoholic?

I was beinf facishes, you know making fun of the question! are you on drugs now? lol